Don DeLillo

A Novel

Falling Man

Jackson Weaver

This may be the most boring book I have ever read. in it, nothing happens to anyone save for the very beginning and very end. The characters speak in a stunted, unrealistic style ("you know this?" "You have heard this?") and have absolutely no reason to have a novel written about them. I have read books more poorly executed, but at least they did something. This book is the equivalent of the most boring person at a party telling you about their week walking to the laundromat, then back, then going to sleep, except it takes them the equivalent of 250 pages.

obnoxious ass approach to dialogue oh my god. the book did a nice job of staging these lives post tragedy, each plot point was believable. 

specifically enjoyed the mother/daughter relationship between lianne and nina, and martin as well, he was interesting…bare walls. also really enjoyed the ongoing reappearance of the falling man throughout the book, that was a nice touch

༺ kat ༻

obnoxious ass approach to dialogue oh my god. the book did a nice job of staging these lives post tragedy, each plot point was believable. 

specifically enjoyed the mother/daughter relationship between lianne and nina, and martin as well, he was interesting…bare walls. also really enjoyed the ongoing reappearance of the falling man throughout the book, that was a nice touch

âe~Searing, profoundly unsettling. An unforgettable novelâe(tm) Sunday Times Falling Man begins on September 11, in the smoke and ash of the burning towers. In the days and the years following, we trace the aftermath of this global tremor in the private lives of a few reticulated individuals. Theirs are lives choreographed by loss, by grief and by the enormous force of history. From these intimate portraits, DeLillo shifts to an extrapolated vision: he charts the way the events have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. This is an unforgettable novel, at once cathartic and beautiful and heartbreaking. âe~These are pages of magnificent force and control, DeLilloâe(tm)s genius at full pelt. Reading them, you have to remind yourself to keep breathingâe(tm) New Statesman

Rohan Uddin

DeLillo's prose comes at us in short lavish bursts. Some passages are quiet beautiful in the book, but the overall story crumbles away like paper and falling debris. The ever-shifting viewpoints are also difficult to keep track of. The ending is good, but the second act is where this book falters.

Elle Geoghegan 

Bob Simone

A person I don't really know told me they couldn't get into White Noise, but ate this up. Worth a try, it's probably bad for my prestige to not know any Don DeLillo I like.

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Isabella Agostino

Colton Ray

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Will Vunderink

Maurice FitzGerald

Jens Madsen

Nick Gracilla

Skye Sherman

Brad Mitchell

Angelo Zinna

Stephanie Midolo

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his es-tranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.

Josephina Lucke

Hannah E

Guillermo Suarez

Joshua Line

Merel Vanoverbeke

Eva Talmadge

Et bevægende vidnesbyrd om 9/11, den største katastrofe i USA's moderne historie, således som den opleves af en ganske almindelig New Yorker midt i begivenhedernes centrum og om konsekvenserne for ham og hans familie i dagene og årene efter

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